Saturday

 

The sun came back out.  The wind and rain went away.  Fifty degrees.  A birding day.

 

Drove south to Loyola Beach and Riviera Beach on Baffin Bay, then worked our way back north.  Found a spot for Green Jays.  Got a Franklin’s gull.  Found a least grebe and a marsh wren at the birding center.  Found an unrecognizable carcass on the road, but it still had a flight feather on it so we brought it home and looked it up.  Barn Owl!  A short-eared owl flew across the road in front of us and almost became another unrecognizable carcass.  73 birds:

 

1	Black-bellied Whistling-Duck	riveria area
2	Greater White-fronted Goose	riveria area
3	Snow Goose	riveria area
4	American Wigeon	riveria area
5	Mottled Duck	riveria area
6	Blue-winged Teal	birding center
7	Northern Shoveler	riveria area
8	Northern Pintail	riveria area
9	Green-winged Teal	birding center
10	Redhead	riveria area
11	Ring-necked Duck	gulf waters
12	Bufflehead	mustang island
13	Ruddy Duck	gulf waters
14	Least Grebe	birding center
15	Pied-billed Grebe	gulf waters
16	American White Pelican	mustang island
17	Brown Pelican	mustang island
18	Double-crested Cormorant	mustang island
19	Great Blue Heron	gulf waters
20	Great Egret	mustang island
21	Snowy Egret	riveria area
22	Little Blue Heron	riveria area
23	Tricolored Heron	riveria area
24	Reddish Egret	charlie's pasture
25	Black-crowned Night-Heron	birding center
26	White Ibis	mustang island
27	Roseate Spoonbill	mustang island
28	Black Vulture	riveria area
29	Turkey Vulture	mustang island
30	Osprey	mustang island
31	Northern Harrier	mustang island
32	Harris's Hawk	riveria area
33	White-tailed Hawk	birding center
34	Red-tailed Hawk	riveria area
35	Crested Caracara	riveria area
36	American Kestrel	mustang island
37	Merlin	birding center
38	Common Moorhen	birding center
39	American Coot	gulf waters
40	Sandhill Crane	riveria area
41	Black-bellied Plover	mustang island
42	Killdeer	mustang island
43	American Oystercatcher	mustang island
44	Black-necked Stilt	mustang island
45	Spotted Sandpiper	charlie's pasture
46	Greater Yellowlegs	mustang island
47	Willet	mustang island
48	Lesser Yellowlegs	charlie's pasture
49	Long-billed Curlew	mustang island
50	Ruddy Turnstone	mustang island
51	Sanderling	mustang island
52	Least Sandpiper	riveria area
53	Laughing Gull	mustang island
54	Franklin's Gull	riveria area
55	Ring-billed Gull	mustang island
56	Forster's Tern	mustang island
57	Rock Pigeon	mustang island
58	Eurasian Collared-Dove	ballfields
59	Mourning Dove	gulf waters
60	Barn Owl	mustang island.  road kill
61	Short-eared Owl	charlie's pasture
62	Golden-fronted Woodpecker	riveria area
63	Loggerhead Shrike	mustang island
64	Green Jay	riveria area
65	Horned Lark	charlie's pasture
66	Marsh Wren	birding center
67	Northern Mockingbird	riveria area
68	European Starling	mustang island
69	Common Yellowthroat	birding center
70	Lark Sparrow	riveria area
71	Savannah Sparrow	riveria area
72	Eastern Meadowlark	mustang island
73	Great-tailed Grackle	gulf waters